I’m amazed at the lack of critical thinking of ivermectin users. And I love the JR podcast and vote conservative. But anyone who listened to The podcast with Weinstein and Dr. Kory should have heard them say it’s been used for decades IN AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA.
These are not places where any kind of governing local authority regulates drugs. These are places where the WHO tests drugs without the repercussions that they would face in the developed world. These places have very weak clinical studies, no decades long datasets, and no regulated way to measure and record deaths in these countries. Scientists are literally throwing treatments out and seeing if they work, bc it’s often better than the alternative.
Fauci has demonstrated himself to not be trustworthy, sure. But if you take ivermectin bc “millions of people have used it safely over the past 40 yrs”, then you need to think more critically about the nature and setting of these “safe” uses.
JR is a smart guy and interesting host, but I trust the medical community over my neighborhood doctors who never took a single infectious disease class in medical school, much less studies the microbiological and chemical interactions between a parasitic drug and a virus. These same doctors who are prescribing ivermectin have likely been seeing fat patients in outpatient clinics for their whole careers and have little to no knowledge of the safety of ivermectin.
Using the Drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 can be dangerous and even lethal. The FDA has not approved the drug for that purpose.
www.fda.gov
